Helicopter Crew Warns Paddleboarders They’re ‘Next to Approximately 15 Great White Sharks’ You are paddleboarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks.” Originally published by Time A sheriff’s department helicopter crew warned paddleboarders in Southern California Wednesday that they had company: there were more than a dozen sharks near them in the water. The Orange […]

Oregrown Sponsors Sold-Out Portland Premiere of Epic Surf Film, Will Anchor All-New Nelscott Reef Big Wave Pro-Am May 11, 2017 Oregrown Industries, Oregon’s premier farm-to-table cannabis company, is taking the drop on the 2017-18 surf season in a big way, sponsoring the Portland premiere of the surf film “Under An Arctic Sky” and anchoring the […]

BUCKET LIST: MAY IN SOUTH AMERICA by Matt Rott on 10th May 2017 Magicseaweed I have an admission to make. Despite the fact that the equinox came and went six weeks ago, for the past month I have continued to check the north Pacific swell models multiple times per day. Maybe it’s habit, or maybe […]

NAZARE’S CHAOTIC SYMPHONY ON FULL DISPLAY IN RED CHARGERS Drama at Nazare comes with the territory. You want to see a select few group of humans huck into some of the biggest waves ever surfed? Tussling with make and sometimes break situations off Portugal’s west coast? Endure the most unholy of floggings? Well, there’s a […]

Fighting for equality in big-wave surfing By Joanna JollyBBC World Service 7 May 2017 From the section Magazine   Since 1999, the world’s elite big-wave surfers have battled it out at an event known as the Mount Everest of surf competitions – at Mavericks in California. Until this year, female surfers were banned from taking […]

HOW DO YOU MEASURE THE WORLD’S BIGGEST WAVES? HINT: IT INVOLVES A RULER  BY TODD PRODANOVICH  We all have our own methods of measuring waves. If it’s a wave that we’ve personally ridden, the calculation is easy: guess the actual size compared to your height, add 6 feet, then subtract 1 foot for each friend […]

NASA Moon Data Provides More Accurate 2017 Eclipse Path On Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, millions in the U.S. will have their eyes to the sky as they witness a total solar eclipse. The moon’s shadow will race across the United States, from Oregon to South Carolina. The path of this shadow, also known as the […]